Madam Speaker, I know the member has a lot of concern for the many Albertans and the many Canadians who are suffering because of BSE, but I would like to draw attention to another issue.
In my own riding I have a family about to lose a farm of prize goats, which are not affected by the mad cow disease and which the family used to export to the United States. This family has been shut down totally. Animals that they used to sell for $9,000 have had to be sold for $200 or $300 to slaughter them for meat to feed their other animals. They are in danger of losing their entire farm because of this. There is no compensation for affected non-bovine farms.
How do we explain to them that there is no compensation, no money to help them out in their hour of need, when we have the Governor General going off around the world, spending $5.3 million globe-trotting with some of her friends when it was supposed to cost maybe $1 million? What value do Canadians get from that?